A global pandemic has always been a possibility. For years, governments around the world have had plans about what to do should a virus like coronavirus strike. Yet as the crisis unfolded, it quickly became clear that plans fell miles short of what was needed. The best economic model in the world could not have forecast when the pandemic would strike, and so when it came, we were not prepared.
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